When last year we spoke with Stuart McCullough about the upcoming Bentley flagship—which we now know to be called Mulsanne, a place only about two miles or so from Arnage, by the way—he told us that the car would bring back the sort of individualization program once available to Bentley buyers in the ‘20s and ‘30s. Now we know that the car will come in 142 standard color offerings (or you can have your own color mixed, should you please). This ought to make for some spectacular saloons.

So what did Bentley bring to Pebble Beach for the car’s official first public showing? Something wild? A color combo never seen before? Wood from a newly discovered tree species from the Amazon rainforest? How about a striking shade of, um, beige? With a, um, beige interior? No sheepskin floor mats, no contrasting piping, hell, not even contrasting stitching. Yes, the color caught the light in quite the fetching manner, but so much for communicating the message of bespoke-ness.

I asked a customer, who said he has already put his name on the Mulsanne waiting list, what he thought about the car and the color. While he liked the car overall, he was disappointed about the beige-on-beige color choices. “It’s not my taste,” he said. “I would have liked to have seen something more creative. It offered no real ability to see what they can do with the interior.” Wow, we have something in common with the rich.

Is this what the Bentley boys would have ordered? There was a black-on-black 8.0-Litre Bentley on hand that belonged to W.O. Bentley himself, so I guess we have the answer to that question. We look forward to seeing the Mulsanne so rendered in the future.